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单词 stunt pilot
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stunt pilot
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as stunt artist, stunt flying, stunt pilot, etc.
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1904 W. H. Smith Promoters iii. 75 He might have made a successful actor, of the modern ‘stunt’ sort.
1916 C. Winchester Flying Men 112 Trick flying, or ‘stunt’ flying as it is colloquially called, can only be attempted with impunity by those aviators who have had some experience.
1922 H. L. Wilson Merton of Movies 174 Ain't I a good stunt actress?
1931 Morning Post 18 Feb. 6/4 (heading) Stunt’ pilot's escape.
1931 Everyman 23 Apr. 388/2 We are on the eve of a reaction from the ‘stunt Press’, he believes—the Press of competitions and coupons and catchpenny sensations.
1938 M. McCarthy in Partisan Rev. Feb. 35 In the actual production of Gielgud's Hamlet and Welles's Caesar, the exploiter, that is, the stunt artist, wears a more successful disguise.
1971 Flying Apr. 46/3 He is in the stunt-flying business.
1976 M. Maguire Scratchproof iv. 53 ‘Remember to stretch the line tight,’ the stunt arranger emphasized.
1977 D. Anthony Stud Game vi. 37 After the war Dusty became a stunt pilot for the movies.
1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Feb. 177/5 The black-and-white plates which illustrate the book..reveal completely new aspects of the works of art reproduced, without ever verging on the stunt photography which so often distorts Baroque sculpture in books written by less scrupulous authors.
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